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The purpose of this study is to investigate whether contagion actually occurred during three well-known financial crises in 1990s and 2000s: Mexican “Tequila” crisis in 1994, Asian “flu” crisis in 1997 and US subprime crisis in 2007. We apply dynamic conditional correlation models...
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This paper empirically investigates volatility transmission among stock and foreign exchange markets in seven major world economies during the period July 1988 to January 2015. To this end, we first perform a static and dynamic analysis to measure the total volatility connectedness in the entire...
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In this analysis the interdependence between foreign exchange markets and stock markets for selected accession and cohesion countries is discussed. This includes basic theoretical approaches. Monthly data for the nominal stock market indices and nominal exchange rates are used, where Ireland,...
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This paper examines whether foreign direct investment between countries fosters stock market integration. Empirical tests demonstrate that both the flow and the level of bilateral foreign direct investment between countries explain country-pair stock market integration. More specifically, higher...
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The contagion across capital markets is an important phenomenon in an increasingly integrated financial world. To investigate the contagion from the U.S., Japan, and Hong Kong to Asian emerging economies, we design a research strategy which captures fundamental interdependence among these stock...
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Previous research has proven that large financial markets can be prime determinants of volatility in smaller markets. This paper seeks to examine in a broader sense the linkages between developed and emerging financial markets. More specifically, we examine the relationship between two greatest...
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This working paper evaluates the economic sources of the stock market responses of 40 countries to surprises in the fed funds rate (FFR), the Fed's forward guidance (FG) and large-scale asset purchases (LSAP). We decompose stock market returns into different components reflecting investors'...
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China’s equity markets internationalization process started in the early 2000s but accelerated after 2012, when Chinese firms’ shares listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen gradually became available to international investors. This paper studies the effects of the post-2012 internationalization...
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We document a new channel of exchange rate determination by examining the impact of global equity market shocks on the collective hedging of foreign exchange (FX) risk by large institutional investors (IIs). Using novel daily data on FX forward flows of Israeli IIs, we investigate the causality...
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This paper extends the output growth model tested by Levine and Zervos (1998) by including a channel for capital allocation efficiency proxied by stock price informativeness. Using a sample of 59 countries, this study finds that stock price informativeness as measured by firm-specific return...
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